They are both truly great open source projects, but each also has an ideal use case. This means that the question regarding which is "best" can only be answered well when the context of the website's goals and long term road map are considered.

Word Press is much easier to set up and use whereas Drupal is more flexible. The main differences between Drupal and Word Press lie in content types, taxonomies, URL handling, themes, and plugging plug-in. In the following elaboration, their differences are displayed to help you get a clear distinction of them.

The answer in the Word Press vs. Drupal discussion really comes down to level of skill.

Let us see in Detail.

1. What is exactly?

What is Word Press?

Word Press, as an open blogging platform, has been in vogue among over 30,000,000 websites. Due to the superiority in user-friendliness, themes and plug-in, nowadays companies of all shapes and sizes choose Word Press to power their corporate blogs.

What is Drupal?

Drupal, as an open source content management system, has become a fashion among 650,000 websites. With a professional team of developers and individuals, it is a terrific platform to build websites using various web applications.

2.Content Types

  • Word Press: 2 content types as posts and pages.
  • Drupal: more flexible content types.

3.Taxonomies

  • Word Press: build-in taxonomy systems and custom taxonomies.
  • Drupal: flexible taxonomies.

4. URL Handling

Word Press, a particular URL stands for a list of one or more pages or pages. Thus, Word Press usually try to convert a URL into a database query when presented with a URL.

Drupal has different and flexible concept of URL. Any module can register a URL within the website.

5. Themes

  • Word Press: requires HTML creating for each theme.
  • Drupal: doesn't require any template files.

6. Customizing Options

The easiest way to customize your website is through themes and plug-in. 

Word Press is the winner here, as it has nearly 37,000 plug-in and a variety of free and premium themes. 

Drupal offers this flexibility on page types without the need for plug-in. It uses modules instead of plug-in and don't come for free.

7. Cost

Drupal developers are less easy to get a hold of than Word Press developers and can therefore charge a lot more.

8. Security

Word Press' many plug-in can have vulnerabilities and be easily hacked.

Drupal has enterprise-level security and provides in-depth security reports, hence why you'll find governments using it.

So, as we have seen both have their own pros and cons. So now it depend on user requirement which one is better to use for website development.

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